SSCI 1300U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Annette Lareau, Are You Here, Cultural Capital
16 Mar 2017
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Practice question: sonya believes in the normative cultural goals of wealth and material possession for members of society. However, instead of conforming to the socially approved means (or strategies) for achieving these goals, sonya uses criminal tactics. Fairly new social system/institution (compared to religion, politics or the economy) Education is treated as a strategy for social mobility: the movement of individuals/social groups between different positions within a stratification system. Social mobility often measured in terms of wealth/income: intergenerational: the amount of movement in terms of income across generations, elasticity , intragenerational: the amount of movement in terms of income across one persons lifetime. Social inequality embedded in experiences of schooling: concerns about access into education, concerns about quality of education, concerns about how success" is measured, concerns about barriers to student learning. Social control (in relation to broader social problems: sex education, meal programs, drug education, alternative education sites, diversion programs (outside of formal education system)
